The most gracious
work of God that occurs for the developing believer is the realization he is
inconsequential. His knowledge base is
minuscule. His benefit to others is
minimal, if not harmful. His goodness is
impoverished. It is then that God can do
something with him. Abraham finally
threw his hands up after the Ishmael mess and realized he and his wife had no
idea what they were doing. Jacob in all
his brilliance couldn't make out Leah from Rachel and Moses thought killing an
Egyptian foreman would turn things around for the Hebrews. The perfect mess is just a mess unless we get
at the main thing in life. We are
nothing but a developing corpse if Jesus Christ is not working His way through
us. The silence of God won't last but it
will continue long enough until we grip hard on the absurdity of leaving our
Lord out of what we do. God may have
shown you something at one time but you let it pass. He may have pushed you toward something but
you turned away. Jesus had one purpose
in life, to do the will of the Father.
Nothing distracted Him from it and as a result, at each point He knew
what to do. Do you know what to do? Do you know what the Father is doing with
you? You can avoid the place where God
developed your course or you can return to it and do the one thing you know He
wants you to do. It is up to you; the
Lord won't make it easy on you by manipulating your thoughts or backing you
into a corner. You must decide the Lord
is LORD and then turn into Him. As you
do, you might have to abandon some long standing belief of yours or an
important person's view of you but do it today.
Do it now. As the Lord works His
way through you, He will work His way out of you and you will be like sparkling
ice water in a thirsty land; you will be a well from which living water flows.
It may be startling the ways in which
God refreshes and transforms lives through you.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said,
streams of living water will flow from within him. John 7:38 NIV
